The problem is that france has never been properly “deMarxise”: a recent opinion poll found that 66% of the British agree that the free market is the best available system, but the number is only 36% in France, one of the few countries left in the world where the Communist party is still respected. The strong dirigiste state is virtually a religion, and more than one quarter of all jobs are still in the public sector. Suspicion of money and profit runs deep. Even supposedly Conservative politicians such as Chirac see Britain’s economic model as “free-market misery”.

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